Badger lovers threaten MP's home

AN MP has stepped up security at her family home after being targeted by animal rights activists over her support for a planned badger cull.

Pauline Latham, the Tory MP for Mid Derbyshire, is top of a hitlist on an international website that has published her private address and contact details.

Police are taking unspecified threats of potential attacks on property seriously and have advised her to spend several thousand pounds protecting the isolated property as well as her constituency office.

However, Latham, who supports a trial cull of badgers in Gloucestershire and Somerset, has been upset by a row with parliamentary authorities over who will foot the bill.

Latham said she had been left “in tears” after clashing with officials from the Independent Parliamentary